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Dear Friend, The strategy of Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan (SCSP) which was evolved in 1979 is one of the most important interventions through the planning process for social, economic and educational development of Scheduled Castes and for improvement in their working and living conditions. It is an umbrella strategy to ensure flow of targeted financial and physical benefits from all the general sectors of development for the benefit of Scheduled Castes. Under this strategy, States/UTs and Central Ministries are required to formulate and implement Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan (SCSP) as part of their Annual Plans by earmarking resources in proportion to their share in total population. As per the norms, the Union Government's plan allocation on SCSP for the year 2007-08 should have been around Rs. 32816 crore whereas, only around Rs. 12 536 crore amount was allocated for the SCSP. An analysis of the Union Budget 2008-09 does not show any notable improvement in the attitude of our policy makers towards the development of dalits and marginalized sections in the country. During 2007-08 several States with sizable SC population have not allocated funds for their SCSP as per the percentage of their SC population. Some such states are Andhra Pradesh – SC population 16.20%, SCSP outlay 7.53%, Himachal Pradesh – SC population 24.70%, SCSP outlay 11.00%, and Punjab – SC population 28.90%, SCSP outlay 26.02%. Some other States like Bihar – SC population 15.70%, Kerala SC population 9.8% and Rajasthan – SC population 17.20% have not allocated any funds from their annual plan to their SCSP during 2007-08. Network for Social Accountability (NSA) in its efforts to bring the weaknesses of our policies to the notice of the common people have come out with an analysis of the budgetary allocations for SCSP in recent years. For more details, please read our policy brief titled *"Of Dalits and their Money: An Analysis of the Budgetary Allocations for the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) in Recent Years<http://www.nsa.org.in/Policybrief/20082008SCSP.htm> "* Please visit our policy brief section to read our recent releases.<http://www.nsa.org.in/Policybriefs.htm> * * We hope this information will be useful for you. The purpose of our policy brief is to publish/ republish articles, brief write ups on different aspects of Indian Public Policy Framework. We wish to present our policy brief as a compilation of different government policies, international issues of relevance to India, interviews with different experts and major announcements of the government of India. Please write for our POLICY BRIEF <http://www.nsa.org.in/Policybriefs.htm>section on any of the following issues and send us at < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>. Please note that your articles/write ups should have a clear perspective of the poorer sections of our society. Your write ups should be brief and should not exceed 3000 words in total. Regular updates on our policy brief are forwarded to more than 11500 email ids across the world. Your contribution will not only add value to our policy brief section, it will also help us creating a space for open debate on public policy issues in India. All the contributions shall be reviewed by a team of editorial advisors for thematic consistency. While the scope of our policy brief is not restricted to India alone, the themes we focus on are as under. * * *Themes Covered* ¨ Public Policy Environment ¨ Poverty, Inequality and marginalisation ¨ Government Finances and Budgeting ¨ Economic Sectors: Industry & Agriculture ¨ Issues in Human Rights ¨ Social Transformation ¨ Labour Issues ¨ Environment, Ecology and Resources Management ¨ Disaster Management and Calamity Preparedness ¨ Social Sectors: Health, Education, Security, Welfare ¨ Trade ¨ Marginalised Sections: Dalits, Adivasis & Children - Theoretical Aspects on any of the above Themes Best NSA Team http://nsa.org.in -- Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
